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We revisit the so-called "secular international problem", whereby the adjustment of current account imbalances purportedly falls entirely on the shoulders of deficit countries. We introduce a stylised model to rationalise an asymmetric counter-cyclical policy reaction that is stronger for...
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The introduction of the Euro has been accompanied by the hope that intra-EMU trade would increase and that prices would … converge due to increased elasticities of international substitution. This paper contributes to the literature on the Euro … between Germany and the United Kingdom before and after the introduction of the Euro. Using disaggregated Eurostat trade …
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Kingdom to 11 Eurozone countries for the period 1980Q1-2018Q4 employing Local Projections (Jordà, 2005). In general, I find … spillovers from US tax legislation to have the smallest effects on Eurozone countries' real GDP and UK tax changes to exert the …
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levels and different maturity structures. The monetary-fiscal nexus is central to the functioning of the euro area. We focus … Euro Area countries. For comparison we also estimate the fiscal consequences of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England …
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-inflationary bias, feature prominently in this collective odyssey. The analysis shows that the crisis of the euro today is largely the …
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Large external imbalances have become a policy concern. This study investigates the determinants of external balances for regions within a single country – Canadian provinces – as well as for a sample of 18 OECD countries. External balance adjustment may differ for provinces since there are...
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Relations between national public and private savings, domestic investment, and the current account are analyzed with the Global Econometric Model (National Institute, London). Simulation results obtained with this full modeling approach for the US, Japan, Germany and the UK are compared with...
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We study international business cycles and capital flows in the UK, the United States and the Emerging Periphery in the period 1885-1939. Based on the same set of parameters, our model explains current account dynamics under both the Classical Gold Standard and during the Interwar period. We...
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Empirical studies have found that inflation targeting leads to a fall in real interest rate, macroeconomic uncertainty, exchange rate volatility, and output volatility. Economic theory suggests that those elements should lead to a rise in investment and a fall in private savings. However, Rose...
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